Water-purifier.



PATENZTEDIMAY 3,, 19.06;

P. B, HINKSON. WATER PURIPIBR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1905 FRANK s. HINKSON. OF

NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE ELECTRIC LIQUID PURIFYING AND FILTERING COMPANY, OF PITTS- BURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER-PURIFIER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 31, 1905. Serial No. 263,136.

fatented May 8-, 1906,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK-B. HINKsoN, a resident of New Castle, in the county of Lawrence and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved waterpurifier, the object of the invention being to provide an improved apparatus for electroyzing the water in its passage through the same.

' With this object in View the invention consists in certain novel features of-construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

y In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in longitudinal section illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in crosssection, and Fig. 3 is a view of one of the insulatingframes.

1 represents a cylinder-casing having closed ends-and provided with top and a water-outlet 3 in its bottom, and

cylinders the rod 10.

internally-insulated tubes 5 are provided in the top for electric conducting-rods 6 and 6, having suitable bindingosts at their upper ends or at opposite ends f r the connection of the electric wires.

The cylinder 1 is coated on its inner face with an insulating-covering, and a series of nested cylinders 7 are supported in cylindercasing 1 and insulated therefrom by nesting. frames 8 of rubber or other suitable non-conducting material. These frames 8 are in the form of' rings to fit snugly in casing 1,, and said rin s are connected by diagonal bars havin note es or rooves to receive and hold the 7, and a rod 10, molded in inner cylinder 7, is passed throu h these frames Sand the cylinders 7 tightly c amped in position by nuts 11, screwed onto the threaded ends of The outer face of outer cylinder 7 is rovided with an insulating coating to t oroughly insulate the same from casing 1, and said outer cylinder is connected with the one conducting-rod 6, while the other conductinglod 6 is connected u'seful Improvements in Water-Purifiers; and I do, hereby declare:

a water-inlet 2 in its -I'claim as new, and desire ters'Patent, is'

with inner cylinder 7 shown.

minium or an alloy thereof, but may be ma e of other good conducting material and may be ofother shape and form.

The operation is as follows: Rod 6 preferably constitutes the positive conductor and rod 6 the negative, making the-inner cylinder 1 the anode and the outer cylinder the cathode,

but may be exactly reversed, Water admitted at either end between the cylinders 7 and t rent passes through thewater from cylinder to cylinder and perfectly electrolyzes thelwater, destroying bacteria and precipitatingv forj eign matter therein. 7

A great many slight changes might be made if preferred. asses through through the medium of rod 10, as clearly ss The cylinders are preferably made of alg e electric cur-.

in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without de arting from my invention, and hence I wou d have it, understood that Ido not restrict myself to the relibertyto make such slig ations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention. p Having fully described my invention, what to secure by Let 1'. In a water-purifier, the combination ht changes and alter- .with a shell or casing having a water-inlet at one end and a water-outlet at the other end,

of a series of annular electrodes located within the shell or casing and disposed, one within another, means for insulating said electrodes from each other and from the shell or casing, and. electrical conductors connected, respectively with the inner andouter electrodes.

2. In a water purifier, the combination with a shell or casing having awater-inlet and a water-outlet, of insulating-frames located therein and spaced apart, a serles of annular electrodes disposed one within another and.

held between said frames, a rod passing through said frames and the inner electrode, said rod electrically connected with said inner electrode, means for'connecting one terminal of an'electric generator to said rod, and means for connecting the other terminal of the electrical generator with the. outer annular electrode.

3.- In an apparatus of the. character described, the. combination with a cylindrical 75 cisedetails set forth, but consider'myse f at f 'and insulated from each other and from the I closed casin having an insulating internal In testimony-whereofl have signed this coating and aving water inlets and outlets specification in the presence of two subscrib I0 inits ends, of a series of nested cylinders of ing Witnesses. conducting material, located in the casing -B HINLKSON casing,- 11 positive conductor connected with i the inner cylinder, and a negative conductor with the outer cylinder.

Witnesses: I

H. A. NEEB, JOS PH M. FLANNE Y. 

